Invoice for stationery ware and other goods 'for the use of the Supracargoes' and provisions 'for the use of the Factory' to be carried on board the East India Company ship Bute for transport to Mocha. Dated 4 March 1767 and signed by Isaac Warren. Received by the Bute.
Orders and instructions given by the East India Company Court of Directors to Patrick Maitland, Captain of the EIC ship Bute, for his upcoming trading voyage to Mocha. The instructions are printed, with details added by hand, and dated 14 March 1767. Received by the Bute.
Court of Directors' Resolution On Goods Which May Be Privately Traded
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Printed copy of an East India Company Court of Directors' resolution listing goods and quantities which may be privately exported and imported by the Commanders and Officers of Company ships. Dated 24 December 1760, with handwritten amendments dated 5 November 1766. Received by the EIC ship Bute.
Printed copy of the East India Company's tenth by-law and an 'Order of Encouragement' relating to unlicensed trade 'into and from the East-Indies'. Dated 4 November 1709. Received by the EIC ship Bute.
Letter from Mocha to Rawson Hart Boddam at Beetlefackee [Bayt al Faqih], informing him of the arrival there of the East India Company ship Bute. Dated 3 May 1768 and signed by Patrick Maitland, Captain of the Bute, and Edward Ironside. Received by the Bute.
Letter from Thomas Mathewson to the Governor of Bombay
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Letter from Thomas Mathewson to William Hornby, Governor of Bombay, complaining about a monopoly over the coffee trade at Mocha exercised by a broker named Siscrum Hirjee, and suggesting means of overcoming it. Dated 8 April 1771. Received by the East India Company ship Shrewsbury.
Letter from Bombay Castle to the supracargoes of the East India Company ship Shrewsbury, giving instructions for their upcoming trading voyage to Mocha. Dated 7 February 1772 and signed by William Hornby, Governor of Bombay, and by D Draper, R Jarvis, John Watson, Nathaniel Stackhouse, R Fletcher...
Letter from Beetlefackee [Bayt al Faqih] to Benjamin Jones, Captain of the East India Company ship Shrewsbury, at Mocha, listing bales of coffee sent to Mocha. Dated 10 July 1772 and signed by Edward Ironside and John Harvey.
Letter from Mocha to Edward Ironside and John Harvey at Beetlefackee [Bayt al Faqih], reporting on coffee bales loaded onto the East India Company ship Shrewsbury. Dated 3 August 1772 and signed by Benjamin Jones, Captain of the Shrewsbury.